What makes you feel beautiful?

Note:  Today, I looked for a blogging prompt and I found this question on the SITS girls website for January 11th: "What makes you feel beautiful?"

I almost started looking for another blogging prompt. My appearance has been an issue for me for years. I was bullied in school and was told that I was too short and too ugly. Who could like a short, ugly girl who wore glasses? I did not feel good about being me. I have learned, from friends and from therapy, that I don't have to listen to the bullies in my head. When I learned how to draw human faces in art classes, I discovered that human beings are not ugly. Every person has interesting features, worthy of drawing and painting. Every person has beauty. That includes me. If no one is ugly, I could not possibly be ugly. Be gone, you old bullies! You don't pay rent to occupy space inside my head. You're fired... um... evicted!

So I realize that I can answer the question. What makes you feel beautiful? Here are some of the things that make me feel beautiful:

• A new hairdo. I love my hairdresser. Her name is Jacquie, and she knows how to deal with my often unruly curls.
• A massage. When someone is attending to the needs of my body, it makes me feel beautiful.
• My dental hygienist. Her name is Cheryl. She does a fabulous job with my teeth. The dentist who checks my teeth once told me that I have "beautiful teeth." Well, who could not feel beautiful with teeth that a dentist admires?

• a new adventure and learning new skills. It makes you feel beautiful because, when you enjoy something new, you have a radiant smile on your face, and that is a beautiful look.

• Once again, this is the radiant smile concept.

• Performing on stage. Putting on a costume and makeup and performing a skill that you've been practicing for months makes you feel good about yourself. When you feel good about yourself, you radiate that feeling outward, and you feel beautiful.

• Friends and dance partners. Who could feel ugly when having fun on a dance floor?

• Oh, what the heck? Take a picture of yourself while you're standing on one leg. 
• Last, but not least, the thing that makes me feel beautiful is my faith. God made all humans to be beautiful. God does not make junk!

What makes you feel beautiful?